Welcome to your Weekend Reading list. Here are some of my favourite articles from the week that was. I’ll be back next week to discuss how much you might need to retire and giveaway from tax stuff thanks to my friends at TurboTax. Make sure you come back for your chance to win!

Thanks to LSM Insurance for including me in their list of experts as part of this series: What The Experts Own. Find out what Gail Vaz-Oxlade, Jonathan Chevreau and others said about their insurance holdings.

Thanks for the mention 🙂 And I appreciate the tip about the U.S. dividends 🙂 Looking forward to know what you think the right amount to retire is. BMO’s study used a hard number and concluded that rich people would like to have $2.3 million in their nest egg. I think that’s a pretty good goal to reach for many Canadians 🙂

No sweat. I like the $2.3 million – that would be good for us as long as that doesn’t include our house. I figure you have to live somewhere. My article will be quick to slam a recent G&M article that stated $1 M is enough. For Generation X & Y, I certainly don’t think so….

2.3 million ??? are you guys crazy! we are retired and living quite nicely on less than a 1/4 of that amount. 2.3 million — heck i wouldn’t have to read all these blogs if i had that much — i would in the south pacific drinking mai tai’s and basking in the sun — lol!

Thanks for mentioning Prairie Eco Thrifter, Mark. We are definitely detoxing after the holidays right now. Only healthy things going into our bodies and healthy decisions being made for our money. Looking forward to the giveaway.

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Mark Seed is one of Canada's leading personal finance and investing bloggers. Using dividend investing and index investing, he's well on his way to earning a million dollar portfolio to fund an early retirement.